Hacker News: joubert

New comment by joubert in "Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work"

joubert — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 04:54:34 +0000

Well, the article’s focus is on asynchrony. Naturally then, it talks about closures within the context of asynchrony and to the extent that it is relevant.

The author could have made the topic about closures, but that’s not what they wanted to talk about.

New comment by joubert in "Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning"

joubert — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:53:44 +0000

> wrote them down on a post-it

You write it on local media and kept it on-premises?

Cloud is the new thing, I hear.

Leapfrogging

joubert — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:18:25 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406653

Points: 3

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A device-independent protocol for more efficient random number generation

joubert — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2021-03-device-independent-protocol-efficient-random.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406310

Points: 1

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New comment by joubert in "You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938)"

joubert — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:13:23 +0000

Same here. You may also like “The Big Flower Fight” on Netflix.

VS Code is now available for M1 / Apple Silicon

joubert — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_54

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26398418

Points: 3

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What to do when you have a bad boss

joubert — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 05:37:05 +0000

Article URL: https://hbr.org/2018/09/what-to-do-when-you-have-a-bad-boss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26373450

Points: 2

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Cities Are Sinking Under the Weight of Urban Development

joubert — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:40:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/big-buildings-can-cause-cities-to-sink-faster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26372630

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What Is Mathematics?

joubert — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-is-mathematics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26369091

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by joubert in "Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers"

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:46:18 +0000

Cool! If you do, I’d be curious to hear about your experience.

New comment by joubert in "Plant-based diet would reduce agricultural land use from 4 to 1B hectares"

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:11:26 +0000

I know what you’re saying, but at some point you could argue we “ARE eating the wrong thing”, considering our population size.

Said differently, I hypothesize that it would be more practicable to create policies that influence what we eat and how that food is produced, compared to creating policies that try to reduce population size. If anything, it appears that more advanced countries are competing to gain population so that the machinery of their societies can keep chugging along in the name of growth.

EDIT: elsewhere in the thread I see people comment on multi-use of animals vs plants, and the consequent implication of increased use of undesirable synthetics/plastics if we raise fewer animals. Systems get complex, and their behavior can change drastically in surprising ways if you start fiddling. But fiddling we must.

Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-and-the-new-yorker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343213

Points: 2

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New comment by joubert in "Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers"

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:37:43 +0000

Exactly. Representation, diversity is good for business.

New comment by joubert in "Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers"

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:31:01 +0000

> But i assume that if i ever wear a skirt, nobody would give a damn.

Really? Give it a try for a month.

I would be highly surprised if you don’t get called names, ridiculed, or worse, physically attacked.

And that is if your employer even allows you to wear a dress in the office.

New comment by joubert in "Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal"

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:06:30 +0000

Tidal sound quality is unparalleled IMO.

I’ve got a good set of speakers, and coupled with Tidal’s Master[1] quality recordings, there’s just no way I can go back to something of lower sound fidelity.

[1] https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000397069-TID...

New comment by joubert in "M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU"

joubert — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 03:57:30 +0000

> You can go also go full Rosetta: create an alias to your terminal, right-click enable "Run in Rosetta", open it, then everything you run from this terminal will also be Rosetta (amd64), and you run Rosetta homebrew, node, etc. You can confirm what is running under Rosetta in Activity Monitor.

Great tip! Didn’t know. Thanks.

New comment by joubert in "Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling"

joubert — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:17:59 +0000

Love the audacity of building back better multiple dimensions of our internet experience.

However:

> end the debate about search engine bias by turning search result output over to a community-run filtering system called Goggles

Not sure why something "community-run" would automatically/necessarily solve bias... So looking forward to deeper thinking by the Brave team.

The Mobile Native Foundation

joubert — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-the-mobile-native-foundation-a289ec63b60a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330294

Points: 2

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You can now beam Steam games from your PC to anyone, anywhere, for free

joubert — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:42:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/2/22310321/valve-steam-linux-steam-link-remote-play-together-account

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26329812

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joubert in "On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]"

joubert — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:42:52 +0000

The article you linked to is from 2016 so I found something more recent: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-adoption-venezuela-research

The article I linked to is from crypto folks, so caveat emptor.